# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masaki-kobayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:32:40.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masaki-kobayashi"
name: "Masaki Kobayashi"
slug: "masaki-kobayashi"
description: "Masaki Kobayashi  was a Japanese filmmaker. He is best remembered for directing the epic war trilogy The Human Condition (1959–1961), the samurai films Harakiri (1962) and Samurai Rebellion (1967), and the horror anthology epic Kwaidan (1964). Senses of Cinema described him as \"one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s.\" Although overshadowed by other Japanese filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu in his lifetime, his work has gained wider traction in the 21st century with several of his films being ranked as some of the greatest films ever made."
tagline: "Japanese film director (1916–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masaki_Kobayashi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-02-14"
deathDate: "1996-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.15
  momentum:             0.7632967925294358
  historical:           22.07718
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462030/"
    handle:    "nm0462030"
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    title: "Masaki Kobayashi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump